San Diego Business Journal back issues from September 1994:
Employers are working at improving work experience. (Special Report: Employee Benefits)
Sep 05, 1994; ... Today's job market candidate might be faced with some tough choices when the offer finally comes.Actual pay may be lower than expected and health coverage and other taken-for-granted benefits may be abbreviated or eliminated completely.So, there are some things to ...
Business votes yes on Mexico's election. (San Diego, California)
Sep 05, 1994; ... Government: San Diego is upbeat on Zedillo and the PRIMany in the San Diego business community believe the election of Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo last month is having a positive impact.Zedillo's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) retained control of the ...
Auto insurers turning to preferred providers.
Sep 05, 1994; ... A car accident could put your vehicle in the body shop and you in the hospital, but the care you both receive may have more in common than you think.As health insurers have turned to preferred provider organizations for medical care, car insurers are developing preferred groups of ...
North County recovery slow but positive. (San Diego, California)
Sep 05, 1994; ... Economy: Industrial, retail vacancies plummetThe recessionary economy is bottoming out, giving way to a gradual recovery, as evidenced by shrinking commercial-industrial vacancies and rising retail sales in San Diego's North County.That was the cautiously optimistic ...
Crime bill to help reduce border crossing waits. (San Diego, California)
Sep 05, 1994; ... San Diego stands to gain more police officers, Border Patrol agents, immigration inspectors and a border commuter lane as a result of the passage of President Bill Clinton's $30 billion crime bill.While the exact increases in local and federal law enforcement personnel were not ...
Trio sketches program for wave of the future. (FutureWave Software Inc.)
Sep 05, 1994; ... Software: SmartSketch helps launch a new firmCharlie Jackson, who made his first million as the head of Silicon Beach Software Inc., boasted for years that he could build a company around computer programmer Jonathon Gay.Gay was that good, Jackson would say. ...
Polaris Software hits troubled seas. (Polaris Software Inc.)
Sep 05, 1994; ... High Tech: PackRat publisher is sued by creditors, faces evictionTwo years ago, Polaris Software Inc. was riding a wave of success. Its award-winning PackRat personal information management software was outselling the competition, and Polaris employment had reached an all-time high ...
Mission Bay sailing into Cup forefront. (San Diego, California; America's Cup Harbor)
Sep 05, 1994; ... The official America's Cup Harbor may be an arm of San Diego Bay, but the de facto America's Cup Harbor appears to be Mission Bay's Quivira Basin.Five America's Cup teams are setting up camp at Mission Bay, with two more said to be in the wings. Of the 11 racing syndicates entered ...
Polls are in on this local pol: they say city councilwoman is taking care of business everyday. (Christine Kehoe; San Diego, California) (Profile)
Sep 05, 1994; ... When Christine Kehoe was elected to the San Diego City Council as its first openly gay member last November, pundits called it a historic moment for San Diego. But that victory left a question in the minds of some observers: Did she see herself as representing that one constituency alone, or ...
County making sure clunkers won't pollute. (San Diego, California)
Sep 05, 1994; ... Environment: Buy-back program targets clean airCounty Supervisor Brain Bilbray crushed a clunker last week.After donning a hard hat, he climbed into a demolition crane and flattened a 1980 Ford Pinto in what he claimed was a smashing example of fighting air pollution. ...
Cost cuts may put big bucks in HMO pockets. (health maintenance organizations)
Sep 05, 1994; ... The state and federal governments are looking for liposuction services, and San Diego's managed health care providers would be only too happy to wield the tube.In the recessionary climate, government health care programs like Medi-Cal and Medicare are hoping to cut the fat from ...
JMC Group Inc. (Proxy report excerpts) (Company Profile)
Sep 05, 1994 ... OTC -- JMCGJMC Group Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, markets annuities and mutual funds to customers of financial institutions. In 1993, revenues increased 26 percent to $49.3 million. This gain is primarily due to increased sales through Barnett Banks Inc. and Central ...
A lifetime of crossing borders. (Pete Silva, US appointee to Border Environmental Cooperation Committee) (Profile)
Sep 12, 1994; ... Dad and hardscrabble life instilled honesty, hard workPete Silva grew up on the west side of Brawley, in a Mexican-American farm family with 12 children, that was worlds apart from the ranch-owning families across town.But his friendships were, and still are, without ...
Bank of Commerce mulling a big growth spurt.
Sep 12, 1994; ... Banking: $500M in assets sought by '99The Bank of Commerce plans to grow bigger - and more visible - with a secondary stock offering in excess of $7.5 million and listing on the NASDAQ National Market System.The bank wants to grow from $141.8 million in assets to $500 ...
Quietly, Applied Digital becomes powerful giant. (Applied Digital Access Inc.) (Special Report: Telecommunications)
Sep 12, 1994; ... Testing systems puts firm on the fast trackPeter "Pete" Savage, president and CEO of Applied Digital Access in Sorrento Valley, admits that he faces a long list of challenges. But they're the kinds of challenges you might want to have if you were running a 105-employee company in a ...
PacBell now a driving force on superhighway. (Pacific Bell; information superhighway) (Special Report: Telecommunications)
Sep 12, 1994; ... You can't turn on your television these days without hearing news that the telecommunications industry is on the verge of the greatest changes in the last 60 years.Newspaper headlines announce daily the latest in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and new technology ...
ChemTrans/Avalon: protecting valuable groundwater resources. (ChemTrans. Avalon Environmental Management Division) (Environment)
Sep 12, 1994 ... Avalon Environmental Management, a Division of ChemTrans is Southern California's newest centralized wastewater treatment facility. Our specialty is treating non-RCRA waste streams at our state-of-the-art treatment facility which utilizes physical, chemical, carbon, and biological treatment ...
TSCA: a report card after nearly 20 years. (Toxic Substances Control Act) (Environment)
Sep 12, 1994 ... Today, about 70,000 chemicals are in use in the United States. Each year, 1,000 industrial chemicals, 200 pesticides, 80 food additives, and 200 drugs are developed as new chemical entities.The Vision for TSCAPrior to the enactment of the Toxic Substances Control Act ...
Southdown Systems: finding good use for bad wastes. (Southdown Environmental Systems) (Environment)
Sep 12, 1994 ... Organic compounds are the basic building blocks of industry. In fact, industry and our society cannot survive without them. But once these materials have served their purpose, they must be disposed of in a safe, efficient manner.In the past, the most common, acceptable methods of ...
Ogden selected to provide wide range of environmental services. (Ogden Environmental and Energy Services Company Inc.) (Environment)
Sep 12, 1994 ... Ogden Environmental and Energy Services Co., Inc. (Ogden), a local San Diego firm which employs over 1500 and provides a comprehensive range of environmental science and engineering services to industrial and commercial companies, utilities, and government agencies, announced recently that ...
RUST E & I offers a full range of industrial services. (Rust Environment and Infrastracture Inc.) (Environment)
Sep 12, 1994 ... The RUST Environment & Infrastructure office in Irvine, California is part of the WMX Technologies family of companies. Our multidisciplinary team of approximately 3,000 professionals are located in 70 offices across the U.S. and Mexico. We also have access to the resources of our parent ...
Waste Management helping the world dispose of its problems. (Waste Management Inc.) (Environment)
Sep 12, 1994 ... Waste Management is the world's largest environmental services company, with operations in 48 US states and more than 20 overseas nations.The company's core business is collection and disposal of solid waste. Each day, Waste Management collects the garbage of hundreds of thousands ...
Golf executives on the green; others in the rough. (golf equipment firms employ some of the highest-paid executives in San Diego, CA)
Sep 19, 1994; ... The List: Callaway, Cobra and Adila execs among the highest paidWhen you're hot, you're hot, and some of San Diego's top executives are very hot.Despite the cold reality of the recession, the San Diego Business Journal's Lis of Highest-Paid Executives has been warmed by ...
Managed care looms for Medi-Cal patients. (Healthy San Diego Program)
Sep 19, 1994; ... It's nearly official: Managed care programs will be responsible for the health of San Diego County's 318,000 Medi-Cal recipients.The project, called "Healthy San Diego," was authorized in a bill by then-Assemblyman Steve Peace (D-Chula Vista), now a state senator.Local ...
EPA decision could spare business $100 million a year. (downgrades San Diego County, CA's smog level from severe to serious)
Sep 19, 1994; ... San Diego businesses will likely be spared from spending $100 million a year on onerous employer-based programs to clean up the air, local officials announced last week.The reason is the unofficial decision by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to redesignate San ...
AmCup licensees hope to sail on a sea of green. (America's Cup '95)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Two years ago, officials with the newly formed America's Cup '95 pledged to engage as many San Diego-area companies as possible to produce and market licensed merchandise.The idea was to keep at home a greater percentage of the millions of dollars that will be spent on America's ...
Plan to break energy monopoly meets criticism. (deregulating electric utility service in San Diego County, CA)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Utilities: Proposal said to benefit big business, hurt consumers, investorsSmall-business owners, stockholders and environmentalists spared no criticism i attacking a plan to break the utility monopoly during San Diego's first public hearing on the issue.Although not ...
Caliente throws NFL incomplete pass on TV. (Caliente Sports Book; National Football League)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Airing of blacked out Chargers game pannedCaliente Sports Book is offering another reason to head for the border: Charger home games not televised in San Diego.Despite efforts by the National Football League to "black out" televising of a home team game unless it is sold ...
New Samsung Mexico plant still in the negotiating stage. (Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung said negotiations with Mexico to build $400 million plant in Tijuana are proceeding and hinge on what concessions it receives in terms of infrastructure improvements."We are now discussing this with the Mexican government. There are a lot of ...
Parking lot operators charge favoritism toward competitor. (Public Border Parking)
Sep 19, 1994; ... When Rene Cruz found a vacant, state-owned lot near the border, he saw green -- the color of the money that people would pay to park there while visiting Mexico.But now a group of competing San Ysidro parking lot owners are seeing red.The competitors allege that for more ...
Avocados helping keep the port in the green. (avocado imports boost Port of San Diego traffic)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Imports: Foreign shippers not running into hostilityImporting avocados into one of the fruit's largest growing regions in the country may seem like heresy, but local growers don't oppose the concept.This week a shipment of avocados from Chile will be unloaded at the Port ...
San Diego's head of the household. (Elizabeth Morris, executive director of San Diego Housing Commission)
Sep 19, 1994; ... The city's new housing chief wants to work herself out of jobElizabeth "Betsy" Morris, the new executive director of the San Diego Housing Commission, says her ultimate goal is to work herself out of a job."Someday in the city of San Diego, we'd like to see all families, ...
Small-business message clear: 'no health mandate.'
Sep 19, 1994; ... Small-business owners across America are watching the health care reform debate with a combination of dread and fear. Long frustrated in their attempts to get and keep good coverage for themselves and their employees, these entrepreneurs have little faith in Washington solving the problem. ...
Compromise offered to nemesis of Superfund. (Environmental Insurance Resolution Fund)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Since its enactment in 1980 and its reauthorization in 1986 and 1990, the Superfund program has been criticized repeatedly for the slow pace of toxic-waste site cleanup.The lack of progress is partially a result of the Superfund statute's stringent cleanup requirements. But the ...
Another cut foreseen in rates for workers' comp.
Sep 19, 1994; ... Insurance: 10% or 15% reduction being consideredSan Diego employers, already benefiting from reductions in workers' compensatio rates, will likely see another drop beginning in October.State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi is considering a reduction of between 10 ...
Carlsbad chamber gets HIP on health coverage. (Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce; Health Insurance Plan of Carlsbad)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Doctors, insurers clash on new state HMO regsPresident Bill Clinton's health plan may be DOA, but a California plan to make health care more available is thriving. The Health Insurance Plan of California or HIPC, allows small businesses to pool members when purchasing health ...
Loans for business starting to move here. (California) (Finance) (Column)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Wells Fargo putting its stamp on new ideaSince the crash of real estate prices and the California economy in the early 1990s, many banks have been busier writing off bad loans than making new ones.But two years after lending activity began rising around the rest of the ...
Employers apply themselves to hiring process. (includes related articles) (Special Report: Office)
Sep 19, 1994; ... They use background and behavior checks as well as penmanshipIt took Paula Sassi a good year and a half, but she finally found just the righ assistant for a guy who wears a giant chicken suit and struts around stadiums a halftime.The assistant to San Diego-based Ted ...
Dealing with dinosaurs, rabbits and dolphins: 3 types of employees will react differently to organizational changes. (Focus on Special Report)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Organizational change -- any change for that matter -- proves to be a challenge for managers and supervisors who are held responsible for leading the change effort.In the last two years, most organizations have felt the impact of change, possibly due to rapid growth, declining ...
When you have designs to decorate, be selective. (Special Report: Office)
Sep 19, 1994; ... An office says a lot about a company. Properly done, the design and decor of office space can project professionalism, creativity and energy. Improperly done, the workplace layout can communicate everything from small-time player to pretentious yuppie. The trick is to have your company's ...
Extended buying cycle creates opportunities. (Focus on Special Report)
Sep 19, 1994; ... It takes longer to close a deal, so salespeople must develop new roleEvery salesperson knows it's happening. The message is heard in one sales meeting after another: "We just can't seem to close that deal. It's dragging on much longer than we expected."As might be ...
Apartment owners hit rapidly increasing fees. (San Diego County, CA)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Taxation: Disparity in rates between cities also citedApartment owners countywide are being financially squeezed by rapidly rising city fees on business licenses, water, sewer and trash, according to a survey b the San Diego County Apartment Association.There is also a ...
Another Seaport Village expansion plan fails.
Sep 19, 1994; ... Development: Financing falls through once againSeaport Village's on-again, off-again expansion plans are off again.San Diego Seaport Village Ltd., owners of the waterfront shopping and restauran complex, failed to put together a financing package for their proposed $13 ...
Clubs for women flexing North County muscles. (womens' physical fitness clubs)
Sep 19, 1994; ... Rancho Penasquitos, Bernardo outlets setWomen's Fitness World is flexing its muscles in the North County with the opening of two clubs.The Magic Muscle Corp., which already owns and operates three Gold's Gyms and two Women's Fitness World clubs in San Diego County, is ...
NTN Communications Inc. (Proxy Report Excerpts) (Company Profile)
Sep 19, 1994 ... ASE -- NTNNTN broadcasts two-way interactive live events. The company's principal source of revenue is derived from broadcast fees in the United States and Canada, as well as the sales of interactive equipment, licensing fees from international licensees and the licensing of the ...
Neighbors challenge plant for treating soil. (Mira Mesa residents oppose construction of soil decontamination plant by TPS Technologies Inc.)
Sep 26, 1994; ... A proposed plant for burning petroleum-laden soil is alarming some Mira Mesa residents, and their reaction is fraying the nerves of executives of TPS Technologies, Inc.The company is a subsidiary of Thermo Electron Corp., a Delaware firm with offices in Massachusetts. Thermo is ...
No new members join Trash Authority. (San Diego Solid Waste Authority)
Sep 26, 1994; ... The Sept. 15 deadline came and went, and non-member cities of the San Diego Solid Waste Authority didn't budge.Despite officials' plea to the 10 non-member cities earlier this month to join the solid waste authority or face higher trash disposal rates, membership remains unchanged ....
Keeping eye on future focus of cornea institute. (National Vision Research Institute) (Enterprise: Medical Research)
Sep 26, 1994; ... When it comes to medical research, the National Vision Research Institute prove that quality doesn't depend on size.Located in a modest Sorrento Mesa office building, the institute conducts internationally respected research into the cornea, the clear membrane covering the eye. ...
Matsushita plans HQ move to S.D. (Matsushita Television Co. to move North American headquarters to San Diego, CA)
Sep 26, 1994; ... Manufacturing: Site selected for facility said to be Otay's Brown FieldA major Japanese television manufacturer plans to move its North American headquarters from Chicago to San Diego, although the company said it has not made a final decision on the location.Matsushita ...
Teachers join lawsuit against investment firm. (Teacher's Management & Investment Inc. sued)
Sep 26, 1994; ... Real estate venture added up to lossesFor retired teacher Warren Firth, who lives in Santee, it's been a lesson in th school of hard knocks.Back in the late 1970s, he and his wife, also a retired teacher, invested about $27,000 in real estate partnerships marketed by ...
County tough stand on immigration angers Mexico. (San Diego County)
Sep 26, 1994; ... Border: Resolution called an obstacle to economic cooperation for nationsSan Diego County's attempts to get the federal government to declare a state of emergency and pay for more of the costs associated with illegal immigration prompted Mexico to issue a statement deploring the ...
Port District waffles while water around it boils. (San Diego port comissionsers criticized for decisions on use of public boat launching facilities and morring fee increases)
Sep 26, 1994; ... Waterfront: Launching, mooring fees contentiousSan Diego port commissioners, rather than tackle two controversial issues head-on last week, made interim decisions that turned down the heat on themselves for the time being, but the matters will simmer until they are revisited next ...
He's eating up the competition. (food-service entrepreneur George Kateras) (Profile)
Sep 26, 1994; ... Food-service entrepreneur enjoys Premiere placement in the marketThe main ingredient in George Kateras' recipe for success is hard work. But the alchemy for his achievement also includes generous portions of enthusiasm for his work, commitment to quality, and a dash of wit. ...
SDSU creates institute for multimedia sector. (San Diego State University creates Multimedia Institute)
Sep 26, 1994; ... Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD slated to openSan Diego State University has created a Multimedia Institute, which will provide students an opportunity to focus their educational efforts on this emerging communications technology.Not surprisingly, one of the ...
Marketer running hard to resurrect track meet. (Franken Enterprises looks for sponsors for San Diego Invitational Indoor Track Meet)
Sep 26, 1994; ... Military maneuvering ends over newspapersFranken Enterprises, a Los Angeles-based sports marketing group, is working wit the San Diego Sports Arena to find sponsors to resurrect the San Diego Invitational Indoor Track Meet.The track meet, held at the Sports Arena for 22 ...
Boffo hit: movies and cable find true love. (motion picture and cable television industries expand)
Sep 26, 1994; ... Two industries find there's more than enough profit for bothThe whole world's a movie theater -- and we're all just one big audience.As movie theaters and pay-per-view cable television services offering movies proliferate, the Silver Screen is never more than a short ...
Advertisers, listeners are tuned into radio. (radio listening in San Diego, CA)
Sep 26, 1994; ... Radio advertising revenues are soaring in the San Diego region, which is considered one of the hottest radio markets in the country, said local radio executives.The airwaves are becoming more popular with both listeners and advertisers, executives said.There are as many ...
Chicken restaurant wings its way to Encinitas. (Boston Chicken opens first outlet in San Diego County)
Sep 26, 1994; ... First San Diego outlet will hatch six-to-eight more stores this yearBoston Chicken, the current rage in the ever-changing restaurant business, opened its first outlet in San Diego County in Encinitas, but others will soon follow.By the end of the year, six-to-eight stores ...
Outreach prevents dam from being damned. (Olivenhain Municipal Water District's reservoir)
Sep 26, 1994; ... Environment: Water project moves forward with nary a complaintConciliation works better than confrontation when planning a water storage project near environmentally sensitive lands. That's the lesson a North County water district says it learned in designing a proposed emergency ...
Maxwell Laboratories Inc. (proxy report excerpts) (Company Profile)
Sep 26, 1994 ... OTC -- MXWLMaxwell Laboratories is an advanced technical services company and developer an manufacturer of high-energy pulsed-power components and systems. The company does business in the defense and energy markets, as well as the commercial markets involving microelectronics, ...